Friday, August 31, 2012

7-Layer Cookie Ice Cream & a Sweet 16

Sixteen years ago, we were married. Sixteen years ago, I made the best decision I've ever made. Sixteen years ago, I started a life with my love and my best friend.

{Sixteen years ago, I was having a size 8 wedding dress taken IN. *what happened?*}

For sixteen years, here are 16 reasons I love this man I married.

Dear Mr. E,

I love that you love my family.

I love that you calm my tendency to be *slightly* overemotional.

I love your corny puns (even if I roll my eyes).

I love that you're my own personal combination of Don Draper/Phil Dunphy/Mike Rowe, only better.

I love that you are the first person I want to share news with, good or bad.

I love that you're an even better dad than I imagined you would be.

I love that you read my friends' blogs (and love them as much as I do).

I love that you take the question, "does this cookie look better with or without sanding sugar" as seriously as I do.

I love that you bring home Starbucks.

I love that you provide for us, even when it means extra work or long hours.

I love that being in the same room with you makes me instantly secure.

I love that you finish all of the crazy projects I dream up, like say, buying a 100-year-old piano at Goodwill and painting it yellow.

I love that you fill up the gas tank in my car.

I love that you have the courage of your convictions.

I love that you wash the dishes...even the icing tips.

I love that you picked me. ♥

Also, I love that you love ice cream.

When my uncle was in town over the summer, we talked about the big issues...like this flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream not sold in stores. It's 7-layer cookie ice cream...and while I've never had it, my uncle did a pretty great job of describing it in a way that made me slightly obsessed.

So, rather than fly out to Vermont to try it myself, I made up a little version right here at home. You know all those flavors in 7-layer cookies...the graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, pecans, sweetened condensed milk, butter?!? They're all in here.

Omg i am so psyched you posted this!!! Thus is my favorite icecream flavor...i used to be able to get it at the scoop shop on 1960@champions but that's closed now :( i can't wait to try you're version!!!

You two are the absolute cutest couple ever!! And this post is just about the sweetest thing I've ever read. Hope you have a wonderful day together full of love and ICE CREAM (which are pretty much the same thing)

Oh there are so many things about this post that make me SMILE so BIG my cheeks are hurting.Feeling blessed that I can actually read your words about Mr E and see the two of you together now that we've met and are FOREVER IRL friends. ;) I too love so many of those same things about Mr E for YOU! He is the PERFECT man for you my friend.Can I just add several things that I LOVE about him!*I love it that he named me the Bainbridge Island Girl all those years ago when I used to leave those lonnnnnnnng drawn out comments and that he said you could publish a book just on my comments. Well that really made me love and adore him!*I love that he's talllllllllll and handsome and looks cool in cowboy boots!*I love the way he makes YOU smile and the way he LIGHTS up your eyes when he looks at you and goes back and forth in conversation making reference to YOU! It's so obvious how IN LOVE and adoration he is of you! *I love how he supports you and listens to all that is on your heart and in that creative~cookie loving head of yours.*I love the example he's setting for Kiddo as he treats you with such respect and show Kiddo how to really LOVE and respect and treat a lady that you love.OKAY~this is getting deep! Let's loosen things up a bit!One last thing.*I love that Greg and I can be goof~balling around on a road trip down the West coast and take a video of us singing Karen Carpenter's "I'm on Top of the World" ~send it to you~ and Mr. E LOVES it too! I really really love that about him!Obviously you guys have made a huge impression on me...and on my family! {G and Doogan love you too~and Kiddo!}I know 2 people in LOVE when I see them!You two are adorable and have one of those marriages that are few and far between! This ice cream looks amaZing! Greg would PASS out if I whipped this up for him!Mr. E is a luuuuuuuuucky Dude!Love you both to pieces and wish you many many many years of being in LOVE and living life to the fullest!xoxoxoxo

I would LOVE a scoop of that right now - it's about 90 degrees here - and I LOVE that you have the same cherry glasses that I do! Actually, I collect cherry drinking glasses. I even let my family drink out of them, but I always stash one away in my old, YELLOW glass cabinet, and those make up my collection.

THANK YOU, for both the adorable sentiments in the post - I hope I'm still saying all those sorts of things to my husband in 16 years! - and for replicating my favorite impossible to find Ben & Jerry's flavor!! Love it :)

Congratulations on your sweet, sweet 16 years of marriage!!! I absolutely ADORE that he fills your car up with gas!! So cute! Also -- this ice cream looks insanely delicious. I don't even have an ice cream maker and I'm totally going to make it anyway! It can't be helped.

You've got 2 years on us..........but then we dated for 7 years (I like to say we are NOT impulsive people!! ha ha). Wishing you and the hubster many more happy and sweet years together! I may just have to get an ice cream make to try this recipe!

I'm sorry that I did not see this post on your Anniversary. Sincere belated wishes to you and Mr. E. You are both blessed to have one another and to share the special love that you do...not to mention this fabulous ice cream :)

All the best to you both for many, many, more wonderful years together. What a lovely example you are setting for Kiddo. Lucky the young lady who captures his heart one day.

I had this flavor at Ben & Jerry's at the Atlantis resort every single night we were there and was very bummed to find out you couldn't really get it many other places. I am definitely going to make this one!!

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